Robots inspect body
Photo: Herzel Yosef
Police chief praises officer who shot terrorist
Photo: Herzel Yosef
Police: Bedouin teen wanted to be a 'shahida'
Notebooks found in house of 16-year-old girl who opened fire at Border Guard post in south reveal she sought to become martyr because of what Palestinians experienced in Gaza during Israeli op
A Bedouin teenager who opened fire
on Border Guard officers stationed at the Shoket Junction in southern Israel,
and was shot to death, wrote in notebooks found in her home that she wanted to be a "shahida" (martyr) because of what the Palestinians experienced in Gaza during Operation Cast Lead,
the police said Saturday night after searching the house.
Sixteen-year-old Basma Awad al-Nabari from the village of Hura tried to enter the base, and when the regimental policeman asked her what she was doing, she pulled out an FN Herstal gun. The policeman managed to move her hand, and she fired four or five bullets.
After the shots were fired, she began arguing with the policeman, who spoke to her in Arabic. He asked her to put down the gun and promised that nothing bad would happen to her. The girl took shelter near the fence.
At this stage, the policeman reported the incident and additional forces were dispatched to the area. Chief Inspector Ophir Yevarkan spotted the terrorist at the corner of the base's circumferential fence, pointing her gun at the buildings and shooting. He fired at her and killed her.
Sappers used a robot to inspect the youth's body and ensure that it was not booby-trapped. Defense establishment officials estimated that the girl had been acting of her own accord.
'She was a normal girl'
The residents of Hura were amazed by the incident. Al-Nabari's relatives described a pleasant girl, an outstanding student, who would not have hurt anyone."The entire family is surprised," one of the relatives, Uda al-Nabari, told Ynet. "She may have gone to file a complaint with the police, and they accidentally thought she wanted to carry out an attack.
"The police must check this and prove that it was indeed a nationalistically-motivated incident. Basma was a normal girl. Everyone was amazed when they heard about this."
Hura Council head Mohamed al-Nabari also dismissed the police's claim that the attack was nationalistically-motivated, saying the residents of the village were shocked upon receiving word of the incident.
"The girl came from a stable family and was an outstanding and responsible student at the local high school," he said, "I don’t understand what happened," he said.
